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Bit sexist there @socal lurker - bet you wouldn't have said that if it was a male referee...;)😄

Lots of good advice in this thread - but this is a key one for me. In reality players can object to your decisions all they like, but if it's clear you are aware of - and concerned for - player safety, that is normally recognised as a positive.

Nice bit of safeguarding too - for the player but also for you, as they can't then claim you've sworn at them or anything.

Then we can see them drawing lines for five minutes to determine where the body and the arm is.... The law is never going to take account of every single circumstance, and it shouldn't IMO. Ones like this are tricky because they don't feel right, but establishing the broader point is more...

Culturally we all know that swearing at football happens, and there is a difference between swearing at a 9 yo and a 17 yo. Safeguarding is a policy though, and like legislation doesn't draw a distinction between age groups but focuses on adults and children. So, also like the law, where the...

Just on this, you absolutely shouldn't be reluctant to say anything. If they make such comments, just repeat that you are deaf (or ignore them, of course - with good reason ;) ). If the behaviour is dissentful or OFFINABUS, use the cards - they will soon learn. And there's the difference. If...

I like that advice. But I'm still smarting from being publicly ridiculed by a referee when I was AR a few years ago. A red defender traps the ball quite close to me with a blue player who was in an offside position behind him (closer to his own goal). 20-30 seconds go by whilst the defender...

I agree with everything you've said here and in my experience most of this works well. The one I would be careful about it smiling. Players do hate it, but they will also use it against you, so it can create more of a reaction rather than less. It probably depends on a few factors, but I just...

There used to be a brilliant question in the exam which gave the scenario of a defender successfully preventing the goal, realising his predicament and kicking the ball into the goal (before you could blow the whistle).

Hah, interesting. I had it at County level and in the WNL!

The same rules apply in Quidditch, I imagine... ;)

To be fair, I've seen it a few times (players shouting just before a DFK or a penalty mostly). Easy to penalise as long as you know who's done it...!

I think this is partly about you worrying about being absolutely accurate re: timing and how you approach that with doing 'what football expects'. Just to clarify, you can't be wrong here, because ultimately timekeeping is down to you. However, you can observe what happens generally so that...

I think being proactive is often the answer to these things, so they don't get out of hand. Staying near the goal and using your voice (and/or whistle, though not normally necessary) is my answer. I want to attacking players rushing in to grab the ball and also to prevent goalkeepers blocking...

And no mitigation. So he had time to turn his body but not time to put arms out or try and restrict impact. In many ways it is similar to the 'excessive force' argument, so definitely nothing wrong with the decision as the law stands.

Or in other words, the advantage goes to the offended player/team, not to the perpetrators!

In my experience the captains are often the worst, most vocal and most aggressive. Like many, I always say that I'll talk to them - but only talk and not discuss - and that if I think they can help in a situation I may call them in. In reality, I wouldn't want to give the impression that they...

Yep. And it works the other way around too. I once had a referee wave down my flag for offside after a FK taken by the keeper. At half-time, when I asked why, he condescendingly told me that there was no offside from a GK. He refused to accept that it was a FK - and lost all credibility in...

I'd have thought Suella had better things to do, but there you go...

I think that's Chas' point - all teams do this, not just the opposition.